To fit your fancies to your father’s will;

Or else the law of Athens yields you up,—

120 Which by no means we may extenuate,—

To death, or to a vow of single life.

Come, my Hippolyta: what cheer, my love?

Demetrius and Egeus, go along:

I must employ you in some business

[125] Against our nuptial, and confer with you

Of something nearly that concerns yourselves.

[127] Ege. With duty and desire we follow you. [Exeunt all but Lysander and Hermia.